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It is time to finally get over the misconceptions generated by the loud and misleading rhetoric regarding the
superior efficiencies of close-coupled and liquid cooled server cabinet solutions, as well as the supposed
limits on power densities that can be effectively cooled by air. Passive air cooling can successfully dissipate
as much heat as can be generated by commercial servers that can actually fit in a 42-45 U cabinet, and in fact
more than most close-coupled and liquid-cooled solutions. In addition, air-cooled solutions that rely on
complete isolation between supply air and return air are more efficient than most close-coupled systems and
provide access to lower data center cooling costs.

The primary focus of any data center is the critical applications that form an enterprise’s business and operational core—its commercial and technical heart. Last-generation facilities, which were often designed using traditional methods created during the mainframe era, simply aren’t capable of handling the requirements of today’s businesscritical applications. Additionally, deploying a data center with inadequate or inappropriate resources, or placing the facility in the wrong location, can negatively impact application performance and, in turn, enterprise success.

Efficiency is a key objective when designing a data center. Efficiency gains are typically focused completely on power and cooling. Efficiencies can be realized in many other areas resulting in additional cost savings, reliable network performance, easier maintenance, flexibility, and scalability. The success and efficiency of the data center can be maximized by considering five key elements when designing: performance, time, space, experience, and sustainability

Energy costs are the fastest-rising expense for today’s data centers. Naturally, power consumption is a top concern for managers of data center, enterprise, and cloud environments. Moreover, there are multiple proprietary power measurement and control protocols supported by various solution providers, making it challenging to have a single solution for power management across all devices in the data center.
After a successful Intel IT proof of concept (PoC) using Intel® Data Center Manager (Intel® DCM) that ended in 2013, we deployed the solution across data centers in multiple countries. In our initial use of Intel DCM, we considered the solution to be focused primarily on gaining a better understanding of the power consumption and thermal status of servers. With broad deployment, we learned that Intel DCM is capable of much more.

Businesses who have lived through the evolution of the digital age are well aware that we’ve
experienced a generational shift in technology. The rise of software as a service (SaaS),
cloud, mobile, big data, the Internet of Things (IoT), social media, and other technologies
have disrupted industries and changed customers’ expectations. In our always-on, buy
anything anywhere world, customers want their shopping experiences to be personalized,
dynamic, and convenient.
As a result, many businesses are trying to reinvent themselves. Success in a fast-paced
economy depends on continually adapting and innovating. Companies have to move quickly
to keep up; there’s no time for disjointed technologies and old systems that don’t serve the
customer-obsessed mentality needed to thrive in the digital age.

You want your business to grow. Be profitable. And stay competitive. Having a robust network is key to your success. Cisco is the worldwide leader in technology. Our SMB portfolio delivers the reliable, scalable, and highly secure IT infrastructure that your business needs.
Staying ahead of market trends is vital to the success of your business. Cisco can help keep your business on the move while helping to secure your data, devices, and infrastructure.
To find out how, download this whitepaper today.

Want to know how you can accelerate multicloud IT with hyperconverged infrastructure?
Then download this video today and hear from a Cisco Consulting Systems Engineer as he gives an expert talk on Hyperconvergence and Multicloud and what strategies can be adopted by your company.
We also hear a case study from Avit Group on how they have successfully adopted Cisco solutions to power their business.
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Customer service metrics help us track how well we perform in our primary customer service mission—achieving and maintaining high customer satisfaction.
To achieve this mission, we need data to understand our operations and the customer experience. Fortunately, lots of data is available these days.
All the metrics for measuring this data are valuable, but which ones do we rely on to effectively measure our success and guarantee that we’re making smart business decisions? Which metrics make the difference when it comes to ensuring customer satisfaction? We’ve created this guide to help your business find those answers.

adsquare offers brands insights into customer behaviors and footfall to underpin digital marketing campaigns. Using a detailed brief of the audience the brand wishes to reach, adsquare gathers data from a range of mobile, online and offline sources. This rich data gives a brand a stronger opportunity to create relevant campaigns for their audiences.
It is critical to adsquare’s success that its data sources are reliable. As the world’s leading location platform in 2018 (Source: Ovum and Counterpoint Research annual indexes) HERE is building and sharing real-time location intelligence with adsquare which reveals patterns to show how and why customers make transactions in specific places.

vSphere 6.7 is the efficient and secure platform for your hybrid cloud, offering more applications and greater security with the introduction of TPM 2.0. If you’re ready to make the switch, this eBook is here to help by breaking down each phase of the upgrade process to 6.7.
We’ll also explain all the key new features of vSphere and give you handy tips and trips for executing a successful upgrade.
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New research reveals there’s a digital disconnect in many organisations – with the gap widening between the needs of digital leaders, and the ability of core business systems to support broader digital transformation programmes.
Several critical challenges include:
80% say they can’t integrate new digital solutions with existing finance and HR processes, or it requires effort to do so
80% say they can’t get real-time forecasts and dashboards, or it requires effort to do so
80% say they find it difficult or impossible to adapt finance and HR processes to new requirements
Download now to learn how you can successfully drive digital transformation at scale – and avoid the dreaded digital deadlock.

AFTER DECADES IN THE LIMELIGHT, email remains the most powerful channel for eCommerce marketers. And this success continues even as many eCommerce marketing teams rely heavily on batch and blast emails that go to their entire list without any customization. While such efforts clearly bring in revenue, they also leave money — a lot of money — on the table.
Recognizing that largely untapped opportunity, top eCommerce marketers have started to take a more strategic approach to email. In addition to traditional batch and blast campaigns, these marketers now tailor messages based on both their customers’ behaviors and changes to their product data in order to send more customized and timely messages.

Behind every successful CMDB deployment is a detailed configuration management plan for implementing, designing, and sustaining a configuration management capability. Learn the 4 key stages to deploying a healthy CMDB with this ebook including real-life examples that you can put into practice today.

Startups with digital products are not commonly known to pursue small dreams. Once the basic idea of the product is designed and the industry niche has been identified, leadership is already thinking hard about where and to how many markets the product should be rolled out.
The mission is critical: the product must clearly create added value for the user in the local market while reflecting the needs of their local community. The challenge is making those changes in each market without losing sight of the basic idea of the product.
The success story of German ecommerce startup Yalwa - The Local Internet Company details three best practices on how young startups can realize the dream of a localized, and thus globally-positioned, digital product.

In the midst of an overwhelming amount of disruption taking place in the retail banking industry, a clear path to success has emerged. Banks that want to continue to gain and retain loyal customers must make it easier to bank with them.
According to a survey that included 760 different banks and credit unions, the most important priority for 2017 and beyond is the removal of friction from the customer journey.1
To clarify, today’s customer journey includes both the customer experience at local branch locations as well as their experience while interacting with websites, mobile apps, smart watches, and anything else that is connected to the Internet.
The battleground for customers has shifted to the digital world, and retail banks must adapt quickly as crafty Fintech startups and tech giants like Amazon, Apple, and Google continue to push the limits of what is possible with technology.
If digital channels aren’t approached correctly, they can add complexity to the customer experience in

What’s a common characteristic of the best talent? They all have jobs. In today’s marketplace, to get the best talent you have to convince them your opportunity is better than what they currently have. The good news: it can be done - and you can win consistently with a deliberate outbound process. The bad news: it requires an intentional approach which is challenging without the right tools and data.
Your success depends on your ability to build a repeatable process to identify and recruit a steady volume of high quality applicants. The way to accelerate and scale your outbound process is to benchmark and refine it regularly using data. Below we’ll walk through the steps to building a data-driven recruiting process, based on.. you guessed it.. data.

A multi-cloud world is quickly becoming the new normal for many enterprises. But embarking on a cloud journey and managing cloud-based services across multiple providers can seem overwhelming.
Even the term multi-cloud can be confusing. Multi-cloud is not the same as hybrid cloud. The technical definition of hybrid cloud is an environment that includes traditional data centers with physical servers, private cloud with virtualized servers as well as public cloud provisioned by service providers. Quite often, multi-cloud simply means that an organization uses multiple public clouds from many vendors to deliver its IT services. In other words, organizations can have a multi-cloud without having a hybrid cloud, or they can have a multi-cloud as part of a hybrid cloud.

Selecting the right software is an investment of time and money that can pay off with increased customer loyalty, more productive employees, and simpler business management. The Epicor® Eagle N Series® business management solution enables retailers to grow and thrive with powerful analysis tools that tell you ow your business is doing and why.
Here is a sneak peek into 8 powerful analysis tools to consider that will help your retail business grow and thrive:
1. Store vs. Store
2. Your Top 100 Items
3. The Market Basket
4. Big Investment, Big Opportunity
5. Excess Limits Success
6. Beware the Hidden Dangers
7. A lot Can Happen in a Year
8. When Costs Change But Pricing Doesn’t
Download this tip sheet to get more insight into these 8 powerful analysis tools that will help grow your retail business.

Replacing your point of sale (POS) software can be daunting, yet most retailers recognize that innovation is important for delivering on evolving customer expectations. Selecting the right software is an investment of time and money that can pay off with increased customer loyalty, more productive employees, and simpler business management.
Epicor has been a part of successful retail businesses for years. All that industry experience has also given us insight into what not to do, like:
1. Not involving the head of the organization in the decision-making process
2. Skipping the planning phase because it “takes too much time”
3. Considering a technology partner that doesn’t truly understand your industry
4. Assuming you will do things exactly the same way you do things today
5. Selecting a vendor that lacks a long-term product vision
Read the white paper to learn more about how these mistakes can cause your organization to stumble—and how you can avoid them.

Change—and the innovation it creates—increasingly defines the winners and losers in today’s manufacturing industry. As successful manufacturers continue to embrace the Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0, and other digital transformation trends, it’s important to recognize and implement these changes or risk getting left behind by the competition.
In this Epicor eBook, we’ll look at five key areas where successful manufacturers must embrace change and use it to drive innovation, competition, and growth—including:
• The accelerating pace of technology change
• The changing face of the modern workforce
• Competing in a global manufacturing marketplace
• Tapping the power of analytics and data-driven manufacturing
• Charting a path to sustainable, cost-effective compliance
We’ll also explain how Epicor Cloud ERP equips manufacturers to regard change as an opportunity rather than a threat. Download the eBook to learn more.

In our current technological age, it’s important for manufacturers to embrace digital transformation or risk getting left behind by the competition.
LNS Research has been studying the industrial software market for years, and in talking with hundreds of successful manufacturers, they found one common theme—the importance of finding a starting point for digital transformation. Leveraging MES software can be a low risk, high-value entry point for manufacturers as they journey toward digital excellence.
Epicor MES allows manufacturers to:
• Gain real-time production information
• Improve productivity
• Lower costs
Read the LNS Research study to learn why an MES solution from Epicor is an important component in reaching operational maturity and digital transformation.

With today’s customers demanding fast and seamless experiences, it’s critical that merchants’ payment technology evolve just as quickly. Read this guide to discover why payment is strategic to business operations today and how to master payment management to drive business success.